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Vintage reference photo from a circa 1970s re-release of the 1936 film, showing actor Paul Robeson. With a provenance stamp to the verso crediting the Lester Glassner collection and several manuscript ink annotations noting Robeson's name and the film title. Based on the 1927 musical, which was in turn based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel. The daughter of the captain of the Cotton Blossom, a traveling show boat, falls for a roguish, unlucky gambler. Set in New Orleans, Chicago, and Mississippi. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage reference photograph from the 1938 film, showing actors Madge Evans and Don "Red" Barry chatting on the set. Printed mimeo snipe, Advertising Advisory Council stamp, and photographer stamp on the verso. A passenger craft is forced to crash-land on an island in the mid-Pacific. There, they encounter a man who refuses to help them, desiring only to remain undisturbed and isolated from society, having been declared wanted for murder years before. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.…

Vintage Austrian program for the classic 1935 film. Text and titles in German, with the film's title under the German translation of the American working title, "Frankenstein's Revenge." Henry Frankenstein returns to his lab after the events of the first film, where he is tempted by his old mentor into making a mate for his creation. The second entry in Universal's successful "Frankenstein" series, preceded by the titular film in 1931 and followed by "Son of Frankenstein" in 1939 and "The Ghost of Frankenstein" in 1942. 6 x 9 inches. Six pages. About Fine. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors.…

Three vintage reference photographs from the 1940 film, a publicity photograph of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Joan Bennett, a test photograph of Bennett, and a portrait photograph of Bennett. All three photographs with mimeo snipes on the versos, two with stamps crediting photographer Ray Jones, and one with a date stamp and a provenance stamp on the verso. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901, Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures in 1935, where he worked well into the 1950s. A group of American adventures journey deep into the South American jungle with two native guides in search of a lost treasure buried under an ancient Incan city. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus.…

Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End," which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22, 1929 and closed on May 17, 1930, for a total of 485 performances. The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London, which starred a young Laurence Olivier and was directed by then-unknown director James Whale. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written about World War I, following the plight of a British Army infantry company in 1918. Whale accompanied the play to America for the production advertised here, which by late 1929 was being performed by 14 companies in English and 17 in other languages, and he would go on to direct the 1930 film adaptation starring Colin Clive, David Manners, and Ian Maclaren. His film would be the first of numerous adaptations, including: "The Other Side" (1931), "Aces High" (1976), and "Journey's End" (2017). Whale would go on to even greater Hollywood fame, later directing "Frankenstein," "The Invisible Man," "The Bride of Frankenstein," and more, and was one of the first openly gay directors. Two-color single leaf, folded once, 10 x 8 inches. Bright and Near Fine, with a few closed tears and edge creases.…

8 x 10 inch. An exceptional vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 10 photograph of Whale in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Roman Freulich and bearing his Universal Pictures credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Whale in bold, dark fountain pen ink across a light area at the base of the image, 'To Donald Weeks, with best wishes & here's hoping he likes "The Bride of Frankenstein", James Whale', and dated 1935 in his hand. Autographs of Whale are extremely rare in any form, and signed photographs of this quality (and enhanced by the inscription) are of the utmost desirability. A few light corner and surface creases, largely to the white borders.English film director of several classic horror films including Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). Roman Freulich (1898-1974) Polish-born American photographer, known for his portraits and movie stills. Freulich worked extensively with James Whale and was the stills photographer for Frankenstein (1931), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935). The classic science fiction horror film Bride of Frankenstein was the sequel to the 1931 film Frankenstein. Both movies starred Boris Karloff as the Monster and Colin Clive as Dr. Frankenstein, and the Bride of Frankenstein also starred Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of Mary Shelley and the titular character at the end of the film. …

Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1935 film, showing the newly awakened bride (Elsa Lanchester) consulting with Doctors Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger) in the lab. With a distinctive claw stamp on the verso. Henry Frankenstein returns to his lab after the events of the first film, where he is tempted by his old mentor, Septimus Pretorius, into making a mate for his creation. The second entry in Universal's successful "Frankenstein" series, preceded by the titular film in 1931 and followed by "Son of Frankenstein" in 1939 and "The Ghost of Frankenstein" in 1942. 8.75 x 7 inches. Very Good plus, lightly and evenly toned. National Film Registry. Ebert I. Rosenbaum 1000. Weaver and Brunas, Universal Horrors.…